Best hours to buy and sell
Pick a market and an item. Every hour of the day shows its typical price, lowest buyout and listings, and the page names the cheapest hours to buy, the dearest to sell, and what the gap is worth after the 5 percent cut.
On Normal Alliance US, Ancient Cleaver is cheapest from 01:00 to 04:00 UTC (17:00 to 20:00 Pacific) and dearest from 16:00 to 19:00 UTC (08:00 to 11:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 14% after the 5 percent cut.
Current market: Normal Alliance US. This browser opens every tool here until you pick another. Address for this market: ahledger.com/timing?market=forever/normal/alliance/us
Item
Best hours to buy
01:00 to 04:00 UTC
17:00 to 20:00 Pacific · index 0.947 · typical 9g 97s 48c
Best hours to sell
16:00 to 19:00 UTC
08:00 to 11:00 Pacific · index 1.071 · typical 11g 47s
Spread after the 5% cut
+14%
buy at the cheap hours' lowest buyout, sell at the dear hours' typical price
Confidence
Too early
Too early to trust: the thinnest hour has 2 days of scans behind it over the last 28 days. Read the windows as a hint, not a rule.
Ancient Cleaverby hour · Normal Alliance US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Typical | Lowest | Listings | Index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 11g 72s | 10g 3s | 1.010 | |||
| 01:00 | 9g 79s 20c | 8g 86s | 0.952 | |||
| 02:00 | 10g 21s | 10g 5s | 0.913 | |||
| 03:00 | 9g 92s | 9g 77s | 0.975 | |||
| 04:00 | 9g 35s 83c | 9g 32s 33c | 0.982 | |||
| 05:00 | 9g 50s 83c | 9g 23s 83c | 1.002 | |||
| 06:00 | 10g 1s | 9g 10s | 1.025 | |||
| 07:00 | 9g 84s | 9g 54s | 1.073 | |||
| 08:00 | 9g 86s 25c | 9g 48s 75c | 1.019 | |||
| 09:00 | 11g 97s | 10g 97s | 0.966 | |||
| 10:00 | 10g 50s | 9g 83s 33c | 0.925 | |||
| 11:00 | 9g 73s 75c | 7g 73s 75c | 1.021 | |||
| 12:00 | 6g 87s 50c | 6g 12s 50c | 0.916 | |||
| 13:00 | 9g 29s 17c | 6g 58s 75c | 0.972 | |||
| 14:00 | 8g 99s 33c | 6g 85s | 0.997 | |||
| 15:00 | 9g 73s | 7g 96s 20c | 1.042 | |||
| 16:00 | 11g 41s | 10g 69s | 1.094 | |||
| 17:00 | 11g 91s | 10g 12s | 1.072 | |||
| 18:00 | 11g 9s | 9g 41s 86c | 1.046 | |||
| 19:00 | 11g 37s | 10g 76s | 1.069 | |||
| 20:00 | 8g 67s 2c | 7g 43s 83c | 1.000 | |||
| 21:00 | 8g 49s 35c | 6g 95s | 0.980 | |||
| 22:00 | 10g 87s | 8g 93s 33c | 1.008 | |||
| 23:00 | 9g 46s 28c | 8g 74s | 0.941 |
Under 1.000 is a cheap hour to buy; over 1.000 a good hour to sell. Days counts how many days that hour was scanned in the window. The same figures as JSON: /v1/timing/forever.normal.alliance.us/286983 on the API.
The whole market by hour · Normal Alliance US
| Hour (UTC) | Pacific | Price index | Listings index | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 0.975 | 1.046 | 7 | |
| 01:00 | 0.983 | 1.079 | 8 | |
| 02:00 | 0.981 | 1.071 | 8 | |
| 03:00 | 1.000 | 1.056 | 8 | |
| 04:00 | 0.980 | 1.121 | 8 | |
| 05:00 | 0.964 | 1.108 | 8 | |
| 06:00 | 0.967 | 1.166 | 8 | |
| 07:00 | 0.980 | 0.993 | 7 | |
| 08:00 | 0.974 | 1.066 | 6 | |
| 09:00 | 0.962 | 1.043 | 3 | |
| 10:00 | 1.103 | 0.962 | 5 | |
| 11:00 | 1.006 | 0.945 | 6 | |
| 12:00 | 0.989 | 0.951 | 5 | |
| 13:00 | 1.011 | 0.892 | 7 | |
| 14:00 | 0.996 | 0.872 | 9 | |
| 15:00 | 1.006 | 0.867 | 7 | |
| 16:00 | 1.022 | 0.851 | 6 | |
| 17:00 | 1.021 | 0.884 | 8 | |
| 18:00 | 1.013 | 0.918 | 9 | |
| 19:00 | 1.053 | 0.915 | 8 | |
| 20:00 | 1.009 | 1.013 | 8 | |
| 21:00 | 0.997 | 1.053 | 8 | |
| 22:00 | 0.992 | 1.059 | 8 | |
| 23:00 | 1.017 | 1.068 | 7 |
Each hour is indexed against the 24 hours around it, item by item across the market's largest positions, then centred so an average hour reads 1.000. For the day-of-week pattern, see market structure.
▸How this is worked out
Every hourly price is divided by the same item's average over the 24 hours around it, so a price drifting over the month does not make one end of the day look dear. The best buy window is the cheapest run of three hours and the best sell window the dearest; the spread buys at the cheap window's lowest buyout and sells at the dear window's typical price less the cut. Forever's history restarts at launch, so a live market's pattern never includes beta scans.
Common questions
- When is the WoW Forever auction house cheapest during the day?
- Across Normal Alliance US, prices run cheapest around 09:00 UTC (01:00 Pacific), 3.8% under the daily average, and dearest around 10:00 UTC (02:00 Pacific), 10.3% over. The pattern is read from the hourly price of the market's largest positions over the last few weeks, each hour against the day around it.
- What is the best time of day to buy and sell Ancient Cleaver?
- On Normal Alliance US, Ancient Cleaver is cheapest from 01:00 to 04:00 UTC (17:00 to 20:00 Pacific) and dearest from 16:00 to 19:00 UTC (08:00 to 11:00 Pacific). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 14% after the 5 percent cut.
- How is the hour-of-day pattern worked out?
- Every hourly price is divided by the same item’s average over the 24 hours around it, so a price drifting up or down over the month does not make one end of the day look dear, and the 24 hours are then centred so an average hour reads 1.000. The best buy window is the cheapest run of three hours and the best sell window the dearest. Hours are UTC, with the hour on the wall in the zone most of the market’s players keep beside them.
- How much history does the pattern need?
- Each hour of the day needs a few days of scans behind it before its figure means anything. The confidence line reads the thinnest hour: settled from ten days of scans, provisional from three, too early under that, and no pattern at all while fewer than half the hours have been scanned. Scanning Normal Alliance US through the night fills the gaps.